Primary teachers meet Buddha

kolkata: primary teachers' associations have asked the west bengal government to clear the pension dues of 28,000 primary teachers in the state immediately and streamline the recruitment process of teachers. on thursday, four primary teachers' associations met chief minister buddhadeb bhattacharjee at writers' buildings with these demands. arun bhattacharjee, general secretary of all bengal primary teachers' association, said, we have urged the chief minister to form committees at the block and district levels.these committees will monitor the work of teachers in schools and oversee the recruitment process, salary structure and other matters. the state government has also agreed to form a corporation under basumati to look after the publication, printing and distribution of books at the primary level. according to him, at present it took six months to one year for a teacher to get pension. bhattacharjee alleged that the primary students suffered because of the delay in supply of books although the state spends crores on the process. the state should create adequate monitoring bodies so that education in the primary level was not hampered in the districts, he said. probe into airport mishap airport police on thursday started a probe into the incident in which a british high commission official was injured when the false ceiling of a restaurant at the nsc bose airport collapsed on wednesday. superintendent of police (airport) o.p. gupta said that the police were inquiring into the incident after the injured, peter davis, filed a complaint. gupta said the investigating officer of the airport police station had collected samples of the false ceiling.